After work on Friday night, Gem and James came down to see us. Our plan was to head out to the Mount but since I was on call back till midnight on Friday night we decided to spend the evening in Hamilton.
The evening started with a lovely natter and catch up with Charlie and Kieran where Gem purchased Keiran's surfboard (as they are leaving us) for James' birthday present. Then, after James joined us we headed out to a lovely restaurant in a vineyard in Mystery Creek, unfortunately its about 10 min drive out of Hamilton but since I couldn't drink anyway thought it made sense to go then. Was a really nice evening with really good food (the photo at the top).
Saturday morning the boys got up really early to have a game of tennis while we had a a lazy morning. After checking the surf report and realising there was no surf in the Mount we decided to make a detour. The detour was to a farm in Matamata - the home of Hobbiton. Since filming is soon to start there for The Hobbit and no-one will be able to visit during that time we decided to go. Really cool, although its pretty much just a farm now with a few hobbit holes still left, they had picture boards around the place so you could make the comparisons, and a really good tour with interesting filming stories.
After hobbiton we went into Matamata for lunch before heading over to the Mount. Whilst Si and James went for a nap (Si was post-nights, James was just lazy!!) Gem and I went shopping and for a nice walk along the beach. That night we went out to a lovely fish restaurant then out for drinkies, had a great night, if only disturbed slightly by the flying missile......
Woke up Sunday after a terrible nights sleep, thats the downside of staying in hostels - woken at 5am by 2 lads coming back in, putting the fan on, snoring and tossing and turning all night (very irritating if your on the bunk on top of them!!!)
Sunday we spent the day on the beach -a really beautiful day and very very hot. Attempted to top up the tan, but in reality just got a little scorched, it was however a good way to spend a hungover day.
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